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| Williams, Daniel Hale | | Surgeon at Chicago's Provident Hospital who performed the first successful open heart surgery on a patient in 1893. Williams' patient, John Cornish, lived for another twenty years. Williams established Provident Hospital in 1891 as a means of training African American doctors and nurses. Provident was one of a handful of interracial hospitals of the time, and the patient recovery rate, at eighty-seven percent, was remarkable for the time. Williams later helped found the National Medical Association after being denied admittance to the American Medical Association. He passed away in 1931. |
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